YuYuKo will EaT YoU

This song really deserves a big ascii picture of Rumia going そーなのかー！！ Sadly, I can’t find one at the moment. When そーなのかー comes around, I put in a “Hmm~” so think of a cute little girl suddenly realizing something that’s obvious, but still not quite getting it. Kind of like そーなんだ！ just a little different.

I was very, very tempted to write this in web-speak.

So, anyway, prelude to encountering Reimu? Right when she thinks she’s got her prey, oh well – poor hungry Rumia.

Floating around in the twilight of a crimson mist, I wander here and there
Should I eat some of those righteous people that walk about at night? Hmm~ I wonder~
Even the moonlight’s colored crimson,
Like a ground cherry!

Ah Moonlight ray from dark night.
Crimson soul like a cheek.

実は私も何も見えていない
ここは紅魔の夜
今はただ歩いて
だけのようで
闇を操る

The truth is, I can’t see anything either!
Here in this red misted night
I’m just walking,
Just walking along,
Manipulating darkness

お腹が空いたから食べる 目的はないけど彷徨う
私何したい？ わからないままよ
紅魔の闇の中１人 ここから離れたい気はない 夜に漂う

I’m hungry, I really should eat something, but I really don’t know what to eat!
Hmm~ What should I do? I don’t really know!
Alone in this crimson misted darkness, I really don’t feel like leaving, so I’ll just float~

宵闇の紅魔で景色を見ても
暗闇の中では見えないのね そーなのかー
月と夜と闇で包まれる君は ここを抜け出せない

Even if I look about at the crimson misted scenery,
Since I’m in a patch of darkness, I can’t see! Hmm~ So that’s what it was!
Wrapped in by the moon and night and darkness, you’re not going anywhere!

This song’s great, but I sort of wish the lyrics took a different direction :/

[rant]
The whole cast from the wheel (of reincarnation) thing I liked and meeting up with Kaguya who was able to forget was also interesting… But then she goes on about how she can never forget, her dreams never change and never offer her comfort, and doesn’t mention the contents or even a reference to such D:< I want to know! (even if I already have a general idea). The "sin" of immortality is mentioned but not developed or explored, the moon imagery is great but… D:< I'm a little disappointed T^T especially because the PV was pretty cool too. (Though in my opinion/interpretation/etc I place Mokou instead of Kaguya laughing and scorning (out of envy)).
[/rant]

In short, I expected more of (above picture) and got more of (below picture).
I can respect an immortality is not all it's cracked up to be and I'm fine with an emo-Mokou but, *see rant*, plus it doesn't mesh very well with the style of the music (in my opinion).

不満。D:

Notes:
Mokou's surname Fujiwara, means "Field of Wisteria"
"wheel" almost certainly means "wheel of reincarnation"
"immortal threads" = "unbreakable threads", but I decided to take a page out of Hercules, and I thought it'd help explain "wheel" within the song itself.

Tonight, blue tears and red pain combine and bleed wisteria
Reaching out with a cold hand, "Cry!" I laugh and scorn
With time everything rots and melts away –
You've been allowed to forget,
But we're bound by immortal threads, both of us cast from the wheel

見せかけ 浅い眠り
うつろう夢も無い
満ち欠け 銀のめぐり
数える意味もない

Feigning shallow sleep
I have no dreams to watch change
Though the moon may wax and wane in its silver tour
There's no point in counting

Tonight's sky is ashen,
Set between white sleep and black reality
I avert my eyes from that place hidden far away
These chains, these memories from long ago
I want to forget them and lock them away, but
I'm marked with an invisible sin, inside this box

見せかけ 深い眠り
逃げ込む夢も無い
満ち欠け 銀のめぐり
待ちわぶ人もない

Feigning deep sleep
I have no dreams to offer refuge
Though the moon may wax and wane in its silver tour
I will never tire of it

見せかけ 浅い眠り
うつろう夢も無い
満ち欠け 銀のめぐり
数える意味もない

Feigning shallow sleep
I have no dreams to watch change
Though the moon may wax and wane in its silver tour
There's no point in counting

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Requests/suggestions are appreciated, but the only way to guarantee the song you want translated will actually be translated is by commissioning the song (@$5/song). I wish it weren't so, and I'm not really aiming to make money, I just don't have the kind of time I used to have :<